A stylish blend of deck-building, turn-based tactics, and thrilling animated fight sequences in classic action-movie settings. Learn to balance your hand, momentum, and positioning to overcome the odds to defeat your adversaries. Build your deck, control the space and live to fight another day.
You take on the role of a secret agent from the organization "Section Eleven," tasked with defeating various criminal factions, such as bikers, inmates, mafiosos, and ninjas.
The core gameplay loop revolves around building a customized deck of cards that provide different attacks, defensive maneuvers, and movement options. After each combat encounter, you can choose new cards to add to your deck, allowing you to tailor your playstyle and adapt to different enemy types and scenarios. Each card has specific energy costs and range/direction requirements, forcing you to carefully consider which cards to play and in what order to maximize their effectiveness. The "momentum" system also limits the total number of actions you can take per turn, adding an additional layer of strategy as you try to balance damage, defense, and mobility.
Combat takes place on a tight, confined grid-based environment, where positioning of characters and objects is crucial. You must use your card abilities to control the battlefield, stun or push enemies, and set up devastating combos. Anticipating enemy actions and positioning is key, as many foes have unique abilities and behaviors that you must counter or avoid.
The environments actively influence the combat, allowing you to utilize the terrain, such as walls and obstacles, to your advantage. You can set up throws, pushes, and other environmental hazards to dispatch your foes. Certain levels also introduce additional environmental hazards, like falling platforms or electrical traps, which you must carefully navigate and manipulate to your benefit.
The procedurally generated levels and randomized card rewards ensure that no two runs are exactly the same, encouraging experimentation and adaptation. As you progress through runs, you unlock new cards, upgrades, and enhancements that can be carried over to future attempts, contributing to the game's addictive and replayable nature. The emphasis on positioning, combo execution, and adaptability to varying enemy compositions and level layouts creates a deeply satisfying and challenging experience that keeps players coming back for more.